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A curated list of product management advice from frameworks, interviews, experts, resources, books, products, career preps, and much more. The list is divided into cores such as product management, resources, interviews, case Studies, sample products/projects, communities, open source projects, free and paid services. There is no pre-established order of items in each category, the order is for contribution. If you want to contribute, please read the guide. Feel free to add products or links to help other product managers.

This list was created for all product managers whether beginner or advanced to learn from the best people and communities. If you are a technical person looking to get into the role of a Product Manager, this advice below will help you along your path. This guide is by all means not the end all to your learning as the best learning is achieved through practice.

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Core 1: Product Management

User Experience

Lean UX Canvas - Mark Stephan

How to work with Designers

How to work with designers - Julie Zhuo

Give and Receive Feedback

You won’t regret positive feedback - Zack Holman
Thirty percent feedback - Jason Freedman
How to run a design critique - Scott Berkun

Shipping and Measuring Products

Shipping is a feature - Steven Sinofsky
Great product leaders win games - Adam Nash
How to deliver more software projects on time - Mark Suster
Always be defining success - Jackie Bavaro
The only metric that matters - Josh Elman
The blind Product Manager - Paul Adams
Shipping beats perfection explained - Ben Kamens
Measure twice, cut once - Rick Klau
The lost art of the soft launch - Wade Foster

Organizing your Team

Enter the Matrix - Organizing Product Management - Mark Tattersall
Product organizational structure - Marty Cagan
Good product team, bad product team - Marty Cagan
The best Product Management model - Marty Cagan
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule - Paul Graham

Become the Best in the Field

Top hacks from a PM behind two of tech’s hottest products - Todd Jackson
Stakeholder Management - Marty Cagan
Court scribe or Hand of the King - Bruce McCarthy
Influence without authority - Sachin Rekhi
Management clichés that work - Steven Sinofsky
How to be persuasive - Jackie Bavaro
Bad Managers Talk, Good Managers Write - Walter Chen
Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager - Ben Horowitz
Be a great product leader - Adam Nash
Top 10 product leadership lessons - Adam Nash
What distinguishes the top 1% of Product Managers from the top 10%? - Ian McAllister
What makes someone a great Product Manager at Google? - Edward Ho
What innate traits do great internet product leaders share? - Chris Wetherell
Musings on Product Management - Mike Sukmanowsky
Hiring a great product leader - Sutha Kamal
What makes a great Product Manager? - Erik Torenberg
How a football coach taught me to product manage like a boss - Mike Su
How to hire a Product Manager - Kenneth Norton

Core 2: Resources

Design

Kindling - Idea management tool
Designer News Market - The best design resources for your next project
Designer Mill - Collection of free design resources
Designer List - Global directory of product designers
Design Research Technique - Huge repository of design techniques for every project stage
Designing Products People Love - How great designers create successful products.
Design for the Web - Guide to web design by Mark Boulton.
Visage 3.0 - The design tool for content marketers.
Figma - The collaborative interface design tool.
Form - Interaction & prototyping design tool for iOS apps.
Facebook Design Resources - A collection of free resources made by designers at Facebook
Coverr - Beautiful, free videos for your homepage background.
Better Error Pages - Build free 404, 503 and maintenance pages in 60 seconds
Adobe XD - An end-to-end solution for designing & prototyping
UI Movement - The best UI design inspiration, daily
IconStore - Free icon packs by first-class designers

Development

Design+code - Learn iOS design and Xcode
Teaching App Development with Swift - A Github-hosted curriculum on Swift for teachers by Apple
Android Studio 2.0 - The official IDE for Android application development
Xcode 7.0 - iOS Development - Swift 2 and SDKs for iOS 9, watchOS 2, and OS X 10.11
JavaScript and JQuery - Interactive front-end web development
Web Starter Kit by Google - Boilerplate & Tooling for Multi-Device Development
Beginning iOS Programming - A new book from AppCoda, learn to build an app from scratch.
The Go Programming Language - The authoritative resource for leaning Go
Haskell for Mac - Functional programming without the hassle.
Code4Startup 2.0 - Learn to code by cloning real-life startups (PRO version)
Code School - Learn to code on your iPhone
One Month Rails - The easiest way ever developed to Learn to Code
TeachYourselfToCode - Learn to code with tutorials recommended by programmers
Codecademy App - Learn to code on your iPhone.
Xcode for Designers - Learn how to create native iOS apps in 5 days
Codecademy's Learn the Command Line - Learn how to control your computer with the command line!
Your First Web App - Pulling your hair out trying to learn how to code?

Mockups and Marketing

Typeform - Generate surveys in seconds.
Balsamiq - Rapid wireframing tool.
Tweetdeck - Power-user interface for Twitter.
Flinto for Mac - The prototyping tool designers have been waiting for.
EdisonPlan - The ultimate tool to plan & launch your product.
Precursor - A real-time collaborative prototyping tool
App Screenshot Builder - Create gorgeous images for your App Store page in minutes.
StartupResources.io - Tightly curated lists of the best startup tools

###Team Management

Trello - Trello makes it easy to organize anything with anyone
Google Docs - Create and share your work online
Slack - Team communication for the 21st century
Product Center by Ramen - The best way for SaaS product teams to learn from customers
Evernote - Note taking made easy
Google Drive - Create and collaborate on literally any type of content
Blossom - Agile Project Management
Keynote - Make awesome presentations quickly
Quip - The productivity suite for the mobile generation
Do - Run Productive Meetings.
Producteev - Task Management Software for Teams.
Box Notes - Create documents, take notes and share ideas in real-time.
RealtimeBoard 2.0 - Web-based whiteboarding & team collaboration tool

Analytics

KISSmetrics - Not just for marketers; see the behavior of all your users.
AnimationEngine - Easily build advanced custom animations on iOS.
Analytics for Optimizely - Your Optimizely A/B tests on your iPhone.
Google Analytics by SumoMe - The easiest way to see your Google Analytics.
Google Analytics 360 Suite - Enterprise analytics for your marketing.
People Analytics - One place to understand your users.
Usage Analytics in appFigures - Track usage for your app along side downloads, ranks & more.
Baremetrics for Slack - Subscription analytics, insights & notifications in Slack.
Beam - Tell your stories with beautiful charts.
Fabric mobile app by Twitter - Real-time analytics and stability alerts for your app.
Stream - Analytics for feeds.
Mobile Dashboards by Mixpanel - Monitor your key metrics, everywhere you go
A/B Testing Effectively - Run successful, statistically accurate A/B tests.

Books

Inspired - How to Create Products Customers Love - Marty Cagan
Getting Real - The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
The 4 steps to the Epiphany - Steve Blank
Beginning Customer Development - Kevin Dewalt
Inspired - How to Create Products Customers Love - Marty Cagan
Joel on Software - Joel Spolsky
Peopleware - Tom DeMarco
Team Geek - Brian Fitzpatrick
The Mythical Man-Month - Frederick Brooks
The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman
How To Measure Anything - Douglas W. Hubbard
Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Understanding Media - Marshall McLuhan
Made to Stick - Chip and Dan Heath
Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
The Martian - Andy Weir
What Every BODY Is Saying - Joe Navarro
The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Getting Past NO - William Ury
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard - Chip and Dan Heath
The Innovator’s Dilemma - Clayton Christensen
It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy - Michael Abrashoff
The Score Takes Care of Itself - Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison & Craig Walsh
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
Algorithms of the Intelligent Web - Haralambos Marmanis and Dmitry Babenko
Managing Humans - Former Manager at Apple
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon - Brad Stone

Podcasts

Design Details Podcast - A show about the people who design our favorite products.
AngelList Radio - Kirill Makharinsky - What factors can predict a company's future success
Exponent - Get Off My Lawn! - How Snapchat has built it’s product effectively
HOW TO MAKE SURE YOU ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS - 6 practical ways we can make sure you achieve your goals
What I Know Best - Catherine Pao - Growth Product Manager At Blue Apron - Product & growth lessons from DigitalOcean, Fab & BlueApron
FemgineerTV: Episode 2 - How to Make Smart Tradeoffs When Developing Software Products - Interview with former Director of Engineering at Facebook
The James Altucher Show #160: Ashlee Vance - Elon Musk and the quest to save mankind
Product Hunt Maker Stories - Matt Mazzeo - Future of VC, breaking into tech/VC, & more
Growth Everywhere - The Strategy That Skyrocketed Hotjar to $1 Million ARR in 6 Months - How David Darmanin Grew Hotjar To $1 Million ARR in 6 months

Courses

Design Workflow with Sketch - An e-course from Clark Wimberly at InVision.
Designlab - Learn design by doing, with hands-on projects & mentorship.
You're Hired: How to Get a Job in Product Management - Learn how to become a product manager at a hot tech startup
The Non-Technical Person's guide to building products & apps - Go from Idea to MVP with no CTO and no coding. Launch your business, app, or product idea cheaply, quickly, and easily.
Product Management Coursea - Become an effective Software Product Manager by mastering Agile software development practices to confidently interact with clients and manage a development team.
Product Management Course Brainstation - Toronto - TRANSFORM YOUR IDEA INTO A PRODUCT.
Product School - USA - Get a Product Manager Job
Poduct Managment - General Assembly - 10-WEEK PART-TIME COURSE
How to build a product roadmap everyone understands - Free e-Course - How to build a roadmap
One Week PM - Learn Product Management in a week

Core 3: Real Life Product Management

Interviews

Janna Bastow on "How to Get into Product Management" - A conversation between Janna Bastow, founder of ProdPad and previously a product manager / consultant
Eva Andreasson on "How to Get into Product Management" - A conversation between Eva Andreasson, Senior Product Manager at Cloudera, and Jason Shah, Product Manager at Yammer
Teresa Torres on "How to Get into Product Management" - A conversation between Teresa Torres, Vice President, Products at AfterCollege and a product consultant
Wil Keenan on "How to Get Into Product Management" - A conversation between Wil Keenan, Senior Product Manager at Change.org and Jason Shah
Chris Lee on "How to Get into Product Management" - A conversation between Chris Lee, Product Manager at Dropbox, and Jason Shah
Raj Ramachandran on "How to Get into Product Management" - A conversation between Raj Ramachandran, Director of Product at Kidaptive and former Product Manager at Zynga
Pascal Carole on "How to Get into Product Management" - A conversation between Pascal Carole, Product Manager at Microsoft / Yammer and former engineer at Microsoft, and Jason Shah
Jackie Bavaro on "How to Get into Product Management" - A conversation between Jackie Bavaro, Product Manager at Asana, and Jason Shah
PM Talk with Jackie Bavaro - A conversation between Jackie Bavaro, Product Manager at Asana, and Jason Shah
Jason Evanish on "How to Get into Product Management" - A conversation between Jason Evanish, Product Manager at KISSMetrics, and Jason Shah
Ryan Hoover on "How to Get Into Product Management" - A conversation between Ryan Hoover, Director of Product, PlayHaven and Jason Shah

Product Case Studies

Building an Enterprise Product: Yammer's Development Methodology - Jason Shah, product manager at Yammer, shares aspects of Yammer's product development methodology.
Product Hunt’s Rise - Case Study - Product Hunt’s Rise
Facebook Case Study - Facebook Analysis and Study
Twitter Case Study - The Twitter Case Study from the Dimensions of Strategy Series
Early Google Case Study - Google Case Study
Amazon Case Study - Amazon Case Study
Apple iPod Case Study - Apple Case Study
Netflix Case Study - Netflix Case Study

Sample Product Documentation

How I would grow Thumbtack’s Customer Side of the Marketplace — Product Spec - Sample Product Spec about Thumbtack
Global Lynda - Sample Product Requirements Document
Global Lynda - Sample Company Context and User Personas
Global Lynda - Sample Metrics Case Study
Global Lynda - Sample Language Rollout Phases
Global Lynda - Sample Go-to-Market Plan
Product Hunt - Sample Early Product Spec from Ryan Hoover, Product Hunt
Yahoo! Let’s put some Bots in that beautiful Messenger App - Product Spec Sample Product Spec about Yahoo

Communities to Join

Groups

Mind the Product - Mind the Product Community Website and Blog
Product School - Product School Company Website
Designer Chat - The Designer News community in a private Slack chat.
Product Manager HQ - Product Manager HQ - Slack group

Meetups

#####North America

Product Tank - Product Tank NY Meetups
Product Austin - The largest Product Meet-up in Austin, TX
The Product Group - The Product Group New York
Lean Product & Lean UX Silicon Valley - People interested in applying Lean Startup, Lean UX, and Agile principles to design and develop products that customers love
Product Management Fast Track - Product Management in San Francisco
SUPA Product Talks SFBay - SUPA Product Academy in San Francisco
Silicon Valley Strategy, Innovation and Product Management - Product Management in Cupertino, CA
Startup Metrics Toronto, Canada - A group for entrepreneurs and product managers to discuss the metrics that matter to their startups.

#####Europe

The Product Group London - The Product Group London

Conferences

Mind the Product Conference - The Conference for Passionate Product People
AnimationEngine - Easily build advanced custom animations on iOS.
Industry - Product Conference - For people who build, launch and scale world-class product.
Lean Startup Week - Lean Startup Week is a seven-day immersion into Lean Startup methodology led by star practitioners in big companies and hot startups from around the world.
Enterprise UX 2016 - The Enterprise UX 2016 conference is dedicated to delivering useful, delightful, and humane experiences to people who work for and in enterprises.

Core 4: Get the Job

Career Prep:Resume

How do you write a good resume for product manager jobs? - Sample Advice on Quora
Mike Bracco - Sample PM Resume - Sample Resume Website from a PM
Adam Mathes - Sample PM Resume - Sample Resume Website from a PM
How to get that Next PM Job - 200 slides from Google PM
Nicholas Ivanecky - Sample PM Website - Nicholas Ivanecky Resume Website

Career Prep:The Interview

Cracking the PM Interview - Book based on getting a PM career
The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions - PM Questions to Practice
The PM Interview - Set of Questions + Timer to practice your PM skills.
The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions - Quora PM Questions
4 Questions I Always Ask When Interviewing Product Managers - 4 Questions to ask a PM
Product School - Product School 2-month Education
Interview Question Prep for PM Interviews - Prep Questions from Rafi Lurie, APM at Uber.

Career Prep:Company Types

Google by Larry page and Sergey Brin - Google's culture
Microsoft - Microsoft PM Culture
Amazon - Amazon's culture
Facebook - Facebook PM Culture

Best Product Managers on Twitter

Ken Norton - Partner @GVTeam. Formerly PM @Google.
Josh Elman - Partner, @GreylockVC: @Medium, @Jelly, @AppMeerkat, @Operator, @discordapp @Nextdoor.
Hunter Walk - @homebrew, Seed Stage Venture Fund w @satyap. Made products at YouTube, Google & SecondLife.
Ian McAllister - Director of Product at Airbnb. Former Amazon and founder of @AmazonSmile.
Marty Cagan - I'm a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, specializing in product teams and product strategy
Ellen Chisa - VP Product for http://lolatravel.com , temporary @harvardhbs dropout.
Jackie Bavaro - Asana Product Manager. Co-Author of Cracking the PM Interview. Previously @ Google & Microsoft
Julie Zhuo - Product design VP @ Facebook.
Joel Spolsky - CEO of Stack Overflow, co-founder of Fog Creek Software (FogBugz, Kiln), and creator of Trello.
Bruce McCarthy - Innovator, consultant, coach, and evangelist for better products and product development
Des Traynor - Co-founder of @intercom.
Sachin Rekhi - Entrepreneur, Product Guy, and Software Engineer.
Adam Nash - CEO @Wealthfront
Rich Mironov - Tech start-up veteran, product exec/coach/mentor, writer (Art of Product Management)
Eric Ries - Trying to change how startups are built.
Steven Sinofsky - Board Partner @a16z • Adviser @BoxHQ • Writings @ Learning by Shipping
Janna Bastow - Co-Founder of MTP/CEO at ProdPad/CoFounder ProductTank and ProductCamp London
Martin Eriksson - Co-Founder at MTP/ProductTank
Simon Cast - Co Founder MTP/ProductTank/ProdPad

Special Thanks

Special Thanks to Paul Cothenet for providing the Base of Core 1: Product Management

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Core 1: Product Management

What is Product Management

Is it really for you?

Becoming a Product Guru

Building Great Products

Get out of the building

All about those Requirements

Roadmaps, Planning, and Prioritization

How to work with Engineers

User Experience

How to work with Designers

Give and Receive Feedback

Shipping and Measuring Products

Organizing your Team

Become the Best in the Field

Core 2: Resources

Design

Development

Mockups and Marketing

Analytics

Books

Podcasts

Courses

Core 3: Real Life Product Management

Interviews

Product Case Studies

Sample Product Documentation

Communities to Join

Groups

Meetups

Conferences

Core 4: Get the Job

Career Prep:Resume

Career Prep:The Interview

Career Prep:Company Types

Best Product Managers on Twitter

Special Thanks

Contributing to the list

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